“Bottled Water” Appears in Thrush Poetry Journal—May 2014

April 30, 2014

So focused on the musical comeback and my work with The Last Ancients that I haven’t been posting as much, especially on the poetry/flash fiction fronts. But this graphic poetry collaboration with artist/writer Rae Joyce (aka, Rachel Fenton) deserves a few words.

“Bottled Water” was created through conversation. Similar to the two PANK poems (April 2014), this work explored process, ways in which a poet/artist can be honest, self-referential, even transparent without succumbing to the worst of literary sins: being boring. And it certainly helps when the dialog is fresh, when discourse does challenge.

A half dozen partnered poems. A half dozen that got picked up. But the real reward isn’t in the publication, but instead in the staying open—all hours. The Things We Carried? Moments not Bottled up: water, razor blades, swimming practice, shopping cart lives.